-died lonely in his sleep in a small hotel, owned by a former leader of the BDM, in Kröv an der Mösel on September 8, 1974 at age 66, almost blind owing to a eye illness.

- is buried in all stillness closeby on the local cemetery of Kröv.

-On his stone it says”Ich war Einer von Euch” or “I was one of you”

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